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Friday, August 24, 2012

Update at Nutfield Genealogy

August has been a busy month, even though I wasn’t even home
one week to work on genealogy! I spent
some time on Long Island, and found several interesting things to blog about
later, including my posts on Shelter Island, the Dolan DNA Learning Center and
the Walt Whitman Birthplace. I always
find something historical when we are sightseeing!

Last month my newest guest blogger, Betty Pye Wing, launched
her own blog The Pye Plate at http://thepyeplate.blogspot.com/ This is the third time I’ve encouraged
someone to start their own blog, and they all are wonderful! In fact, one of these bloggers has also
started a second blog (unrelated to genealogy), so they must be having fun! And I think that The Pye Plate is one of the all time great names for a blog!

The Nesmith Public library in Windham has honored me by
placing a link to my blog on their page of genealogical resources on their
website. Windham is one of the original
towns that made up the grant of land known as Nutfield. It’s always nice to learn more about
Windham. I was surprised to see quite a
few hits on my blog that traced back to the library website. What a great surprise. Check it out! http://www.nesmithlibrary.org/Misc/Genealogy.html

Just last week a student at St. Anselm’s college in
Manchester contacted me about using one of my photographs of a family burial
plot in her presentation. It is a
lecture “for medical professionals that will contrast how the culture was in
the 1800s vs. today for the acceptance of death and dying.” I wish I could be a fly on the wall for that
presentation! I granted her permission,
attributed to my photographer, Vincent Rojo, and I applauded her for
asking. I’m sure many more of my photos
have been “lifted” without permission.
You can see the photo of the Pettingill Burial Ground of Londonderry at
this link: http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/10/tombstone-tuesday-pettingill-burial.html

A story I posted last year on the Towne Family Burial Ground
around the corner from my house will be published in the next issue of the
Towne Family Association newsletter, “About
Towne” (another great name!). I
just received permission to take photos of the folk art portraits of Robert
Boyd and Mary Towne that hang in Londonderry’s Leach Public Library to
accompany the article. If you are a
descendant of William Towne and Joanna Blessing who came to Salem,
Massachusetts about 1635, you can read all about it! The condominium I live in
now was built on the Boyd dairy farm in the 1960s. The Townes lived across the street, near the
burial ground. William must have fell in
love with “the girl next door!” http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/09/tombstone-tuesday-towne-family-burial.html

Cousin Connections:

While I was in Long Island I received an email from a
brother and sister who were excited to find their Wilkinson ancestors on my
blog. They were able to trace 11
generations back! Some photos of a
graveyard I had posted from my first
cousin near Brownsville, Maine helped them to put it all together. We are very distant cousins, but it’s always
nice to meet another Wilkinson descendant.

A third cousin wrote to me from Texas, after he saw my story
about the Draper and Maynard Sports Equipment Company, and the very unique name
of Cupe Adams. He must have used
Google. I don’t think there are many
people in the world with the name Cupe.
He said that he was Cupe Adams, the 5th George Herbert
Adams. He also divulged that the first
George got the nickname Cupe from delivering love messages to the girls side of
campus to the boys side of campus. The
students started calling him Cupid. It
evolved into Cupe. It was a great name
to use for “cousin bait”! The story
about Cupe Adams can be found at this link: http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/08/draper-and-maynard-sports-equipment.html

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Author of the Nutfield Genealogy blog and occasional genealogy speaker. My family research includes Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, with a smattering of Nova Scotia. Please contact me if you see your ancestors on this blog. I would love to share information. I am the former secretary of the New Hampshire Mayflower Society, former President of the Londonderry Historical Society, member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Mass. Society of Genealogists, The National Genealogical Society, and the New Hampshire Society of Genealogists.